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The Reckon Yard Podcast

Jerry Wayne Longmire

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20 year Standup Comedian and creator of Truck Astrology, ShopTalk, and devotee of the Church of Internal Combustion, Jerry Wayne Longmire delves into his own history with automobiles to find the catalysts that led him to be a lifelong lover of fine machines.

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Episodes (109)

Sarajevo Ghost

What do Epictetus and Helge Meyer have in common? Who knows, but let's try to make the connection anyway. Also episode four of Duwali Bottoms Texas is a humdinger.

S3 Jan 25, 2026 74 min 23 annotations

Albatross Exit

This week is about the things we hold onto long after they stop serving us. From a stalled truck restoration to fallen empires and failed institutions, this episode asks when consistency turns into stubbornness. If you’ve ever stayed put just to avoid admitting the season ended, this one’s for you.

S3E82 Jan 18, 2026 79 min 8 annotations

Pulpwood Fiction

How much advice do you give on subjects you’re not knowledgeable about?I try like hell to avoid it.Trouble is, the waters are full of ignorant sharks.We return to Duwali Bottoms to learn a little more about the land, and what it asks of the people standing on it.

S3 Jan 11, 2026 69 min 3 annotations

Rotten Fruit

This week on TRYP, JW talks about the revenge mindset, and how living on borrowed anger can drain you dry. Plus, the debut episode of a new fictional series “Duwali Bottoms, Texas.”

S3E80 Jan 04, 2026 79 min 9 annotations

Christmas in Houston

JW recounts a quiet Christmas at home and getting the opportunity to spend some time in the service of others.

S3E79 Dec 28, 2025 81 min 14 annotations

The Tipping Point

A road weary JW tells a few tales behind his recent exploits on the Christmas tour before delving off into deep analysis of the precipice in his life.

S3E78 Dec 21, 2025 55 min 1 annotation

Optimism don't show up til noon

JW explores the difference in niceness and kindness while recounting a recent trip to East Texas.

S3E77 Dec 14, 2025 82 min 20 annotations

A measure of success |S:03E.76

An overdue visit with a childhood friend from Alief helps JW reframe his parameters for success.

S3E76 Dec 07, 2025 90 min

A very Jerry Thanksgiving |S:03E.75

This week on The Reckon Yard, JW digs into chaos, change, and the strange comfort of looking back. A sharp, heartfelt ride you don’t want to miss.

S3E75 Nov 30, 2025 92 min 10 annotations

1986 GMC C1500 |S:03E.74

Some goodbyes don’t blow up.They just whisper.An inch of distance here, a missed call there, a silence that grows until the friendship you loved becomes a ghost.

S3E74 Nov 23, 2025 68 min 19 annotations

"The rise and fall of Giant Tube Sock" |s:03E.73

JW gives a short primer on how to launch a wall stud over your neighbor's house using a 68 Ford Bronco before recalling the rise and fall of the greatest fictional Cover band you've never heard.

S3E73 Nov 16, 2025 82 min 7 annotations

The mundane is sacred |S:03E.72

How important are the little things? The longer I'm here, the more their value seems to climb. There's even historical precedent.

S3E72 Nov 09, 2025 83 min 4 annotations

"The Devil ain't a who" |S:03E.71

How much wood could a Woodchuck chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood? A whole mess of it with the right pills. The devil don't come in an angry man, he's charismatic, gregarious, helpful even.

S3E71 Nov 02, 2025 71 min 2 annotations

"The beast of Conroe" |S:03E.70

JW takes us back to 2011 when he was called upon to deal with a beast of truly mythic proportions.

S3E70 Oct 26, 2025 95 min 10 annotations

"Aint about the fish anyway" |S:03E.69

Sometimes the best fishing trips don’t end with a stringer full of anything but stories. This week on The Reckon Yard, JW drags three lines in the water and hauls up three of his favorite misadventures

S3E69 Oct 19, 2025 58 min 12 annotations

Death of a Salesman |S:03E.68

He worked himself right to death trying to please someone who couldn’t be pleased. But in the dust and noise he left behind, he planted something none of us saw coming, a legacy built from the wreckage, the stubbornness of a man who never quit. This week on The Reckon Yard, we talk about how the hardest lessons don’t always come from saints or teachers, but from the broken ones who showed us how to keep walking anyway.

S3E68 Oct 12, 2025 81 min 14 annotations

Wonder what the poor people are doing today? |S:03E.67

JW takes us back to the cheap seats side of Lake Tyler in the 1980s, where summers were long, lessons were everywhere, and the shoreline was full of stories. From the awkward rites of teenage romance to the quiet wisdom of turtles and fishing lines, it was a place where memories got made on a budget and lasted a lifetime.

S3E67 Oct 05, 2025 98 min 20 annotations

"The Phoenix" |S:03E.66

In “The Phoenix” we return to the pine shadowed Reckon Yard where rust, memory, and family collide. I take you with me as my cousins and I unearth my mother’s long lost Volkswagen, a broken shell that still burns with meaning. Along the way we wrestle with fathers, ghosts, and the strange grace of letting go, finding out what rises when you finally set old weight down. This episode is about resurrection.

S3E66 Sep 28, 2025 101 min 8 annotations

Unbothered |S:03E.65

Some folks flash hot, some smolder until they burn through an engine block. My Uncle Terry? He just let it pass. Do you fight fire with fire, or are you learning to stay unbothered?

S3E65 Sep 23, 2025 68 min 3 annotations

"Skip Jello Shots not rocks" |S:03E.64

A viral video about my Cadillac turned into a sermon on planned obsolescence. Then a story from the Comal River reminded me just how dumb luck and good friends shape a life.

S3E64 Sep 14, 2025 67 min 5 annotations

Contractors and Conmen |s:03E.63

don’t sign your name next to a crook’s, or you’ll see it stained in the same ink. The Reckon Yard is about what you rebuild, not what burned you down.

S3E63 Sep 07, 2025 84 min 3 annotations

Less Hell |S:03E.62

Back in ’97, I was just a heartbroken Texan shivering my way through Milwaukee, chasing work and bad decisions. Now it’s 2025, and I’m chasing stories that make the sadness sit lighter. This one’s about the past, a surprise trip for my friend Adam, and what it means to leave new echoes. It’s “Less Hell”.

S3E62 Sep 01, 2025 100 min 2 annotations

2001 GMC Sierra 2500 |S:03E.61

JW starts season 3 with a bang. Enjoy a deep dive into his father-in-law. A real-life Rodeo Cowboy. He worked on the Goodyear blimp as flight crew and ran around Houston with a classmate Billy Gibbons.

S3E61 Aug 24, 2025 78 min 5 annotations

2012 Mazda 3S |S:02E.30

JW breaks down the design history of the second gen Mazda 3, before diving off into a recent roadtrip, a moment of unparalleled kindness from a stranger named Russell and a in person testimonial from a Day One’r named Forrest that changed his whole perspective on the show. Let’s wrap up season two with a bang!

S2E60 Aug 10, 2025 121 min

1986 Ford RS200 |S:02E.29

JW breaks down a brief history of the events that led to the development of the Ford RS200 for Group B Rally. Afterwards, he tells some stories about someone important in his life who shares his affection for the RS200.

S2E59 Aug 03, 2025 89 min

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